Violence Reduction Unit (6)

Susan Hall: When will the Violence Reduction Unit Director be appointed and what will their salary be?

The Mayor: Lib Peck has been appointed as the director of the Violence Reduction Unit with a starting salary of £117, 000 pa.

Facial recognition technology (1)

Caroline Pidgeon: On December 17th and 18th, the Metropolitan Police started new trials of facial recognition technology in parts of Westminster. How many alerts were generated by the systems on each day and of these, how many were (i) true-positives and (ii) false-positives?

The Mayor: As with all previous pilot uses of Live Facial Recognition, any potential identification by the technology is checked by a Police Officer before any engagement takes place. There was a total of 14 alerts over the two days; 7 of these are known to have been false positives, a further two are unknown because the subjects were not located.
Four individuals were arrested; two of these arrests were as a direct result of the facial recognition technology identifying individuals wanted by police for violent offences. The other two arrests were proactive arrests as part of the wider operation.

Domestic Abuse Incidents (2)

Unmesh Desai: What % of police call outs in 2018 were attributable to domestic abuse incidents?

The Mayor: Domestic Abuse Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) Incidents recorded by the MPS for Calendar Year 2018
CAD Incident Description
Total
Percentage of Total CADs
Domestic Incident
144239
4.7%
Domestic Crime
93195
2.9%
The percentage is based on a total of over 3.1 million CAD Incident reports
As there are multiple code positions available on each CAD Incident, it is possible that the above Codes could appear on the same CAD so the numbers should not be added together as this will create duplication.